USA Dot Com is a blog covering politics and government from a conservative Christian perspective. Verne Strickland is a 50-year veteran of investigative journalism. This blog offers a take-no-prisoners style with a modicum of biting satire. Verne and his wife of 55 years, Durrene, live in Wilmington, NC.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban have announced they will
launch their spring offensive on Sunday, signaling plans to step up
attacks as the weather warms across Afghanistan, making both travel and
fighting easier.
The statement comes toward the end of a month that already has been the deadliest of the year.
The militant group's leadership vowed on Saturday that
"every possible tactic will be utilized in order to detain or inflict
heavy casualties on the foreign transgressors," including suicide
attacks on military bases and diplomatic areas.
The leadership also threated more so-called insider attacks by
members of the Afghan security forces against their colleagues or
foreign troops. Such attacks threaten the strength of the Afghan forces
as they work to take over responsibility from international troops. The
latest one occurred in March, when a member of Afghanistan's
government-backed militia program shot and killed five of his colleagues
in Badghis province in northwest Afghanistan.
In a sign of Taliban's determination to replace Afghanistan's
government with one promoting a stricter interpretation of Islamic law,
they named their new offensive after a legendary Muslim military
commander, Khalid ibn al-Walid. Also known as "the Drawn Sword of God,"
he was a companion of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
Afghanistan's defense ministry responded by saying its security
forces are prepared for Taliban's new campaign. "The Afghan National
Army is ready to neutralize the offensive," the ministry said, adding
that the soldiers now have the support and trust of many Afghans.
In another development, a NATO aircraft crashed in southern
Afghanistan on Saturday, and coalition forces were securing the site,
the International Security Assistance Force said. Its brief statement
provided no information about where the crash occurred or if there were
casualties, but did say there was no indication it was downed by
insurgents.
Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar, deputy governor of the southern Zabul
province, said a helicopter belonging to foreign forces crashed on
Saturday afternoon in the district of Shah Joy. He confirmed that the
site was surrounded by foreign forces but had no information on the
cause of the crash or whether anyone was hurt or killed.
The new Taliban offensive comes as U.S.-backed efforts to try to
reconcile the Islamic militant movement with the Afghan government have
so far failed. Insurgents already have intensified attacks this spring
as they try to position themselves for power ahead of national elections
and the planned withdrawal of most U.S. and other foreign combat troops
by the end of 2014.
April has already been the worst month for combat deaths so far this
year. According to an Associated Press tally, 257 people - including
civilians, Afghan security forces and foreign troops - have been killed
in violence around the nation. During that time 217 insurgents have
died.
Last year during the month of April, 179 civilians, foreign troops and Afghan security forces were killed and 268 insurgents.
Still, the top U.S. commander in Kabul, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford,
said Wednesday that the security situation has improved across the
country, with Afghan forces now leading 80 percent of all conventional
operations.
"As the traditional fighting season begins, the insurgency will
confront a combined " Afghan force of 350,000 soldiers and police, he
said.
"The insurgency can no longer use the justification that it is
fighting foreign occupiers - that message rings hollow," Dunford said in
a statement.
Meanwhile, late on Friday, the Taliban freed nine civilian de-miners
it had captured in the southern province of Kandahar after negotiations
involving tribal elders, provincial spokesman Javeed Faisal said.
The Afghan men were being driven back from a minefield last Sunday
when they were captured. Afghanistan has a legacy of land mines going
back decades and remains one of the most heavily mined countries in the
world.
---
AP writer Rahim Faiez in Kabul contributed to this report.

Conservative leader Rhonda K. Amoroso of Wilmington has been appointed to the North Carolina Board of Elections by NC Governor Pat McCrory.

GOP political veteran has proven her capabilities in key leadership positions

Rhonda Amoroso is currently the Chair of the New Hanover County
Republican Party. Over the past 2 years, she and her team have grown
and reinvigorated the Party significantly. Under her leadership,
fundraising has reached unprecedented levels, enabling the Party to
succeed where the rubber meets the road – getting Constitutional
conservatives elected to County, City, and School Board positions. By
doing so she has helped establish New Hanover County as a major factor
in statewide and judicial elections.

Amoroso, who resides in Wilmington, said today that she would have to officially step down as
GOP county chairwoman before being sworn in to the State Elections Board post on Wednesday.
Sam Ibrahim, first vice president of Finance and Fundraising, will serve as Interim Party Chairman.
Second Vice President John Tullous, a precinct chairman has indicated
he will seek the Party . Party Chairmanship. Mike Fitzpatrick, current precinct chairman of CF06 will seek the
position of Vice Chair in charge of Election Operations, succeeding
current Vice Chair John Tullous.

During her tenure, she has mobilized and groomed
enthusiastic new members by taking a Leadership Development Committee
that existed in name only and making it a vibrant force in the
recruitment and recommendation of qualified candidates. At monthly
meetings, our elected officials have reported on current issues,
speakers have educated the members on key topics and opportunities to
serve on local boards have been presented to the membership. Rhonda has
also partnered with True the Vote, a national organization devoted to
voter integrity.

Prior to becoming Chair, Rhonda was Vice Chair in charge of
Election Operations where she conducted monthly meetings for all 43
precinct leaders. In addition, she developed an innovative program
called Operation Welcome to invite all newly registered Republicans to
become engaged in the political process.

Since 2008, Rhonda has managed the GOP County Headquarters.
She has worked with the State GOP and state and local candidates running
for office. She served on Governor McCrory’s Transition Team, the
Energy Advisory Team and serves on the Executive Committees for both
Congressional Districts 7 and District 3. She also serves as a member
of the State GOP Executive Committee and served on the State Rules
Committee. She is currently on the State Credentials Committee.

Rhonda graduated from Wake Forest University School of Law.
She practiced law for many years with a major law firm and for a large
public utility. Prior to moving to Wilmington in 2007, she was
appointed by the Governor of New York State as an administrative law
judge, a position she held for a decade.

Here are some Communist Party goals. Compare them to Barack Obama’s and you decide if he is trying to destroy America.

Note: some goals have been omitted to save space.
Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind.

Get control of the schools. Use them for socialism and Communist
propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’
associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
Infiltrate the press. Get control of editorial writing, policy-making
positions. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion
pictures.
Continue discrediting American culture.
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
Break down cultural standards of morality in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion.
Discredit the American Constitution [as] inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs…
Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”
Belittle, discourage the teaching of American history.
Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any
part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental
health clinics, etc.
Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
Discredit the family as an institution.
Herlong eventually became a Republican saying the Democrats had left him - he didn’t leave them.
This is a hard copy blueprint of where Barack Obama is taking us and
how he will get us there. His mentor, Saul Alinsky, would be proud of
the destructive nature of his political “son”; but this scares me to my
bones.
The entire list of the ACP’s 45 goals for destroying America can be found here.
Photo credit: SS&SS (Creative Commons)

This is criminal. I may have mentioned that I will be away Thursday at
Duke Neurosurgery in Raleigh where I'll be considered a candidate for a
brain surgery that has promise of immediately decreasing effects of
Alzheimer's, Peripheral Neuropathy, fatigue, malaise and other problems.

I may not be accepted, but am giving it a try as it might be a real

game-changer in my young life.

Health and financial difficulties are impeding my

ability to fight back against Facebook and anonymous left-wing detractors.

It's the first wave of the new McCarthyism -- only this time the agitators

as radical, rabid left-wingers.

Please spread the word, and get this on your great NHCGOP web site, which

looks just great. I'm flattered to be your official blogger. Since I don't

have a Blackberry or even a Boysenberry, won't be able to exchange text
messages while on the road.

Too bad this assault on conservative political

writers is happening, but it does at least serve as a good barometer of

the effect of my own salvos against the evil Obama liberals. Bottom line

is Facebook is getting tremendous pressure to shut me down and shut me up.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

PLEASE SEE THE WARNING BELOW. IT'S FROM FACEBOOK. THE WRITER OF THIS STORY, A RUSSIAN, HAS CREATED A FUROR BY PUBLICLY LABELING BARACK OBAMA A COMMUNIST. THE U.S. WEB SITE HAS BEEN BLACKLISTED FOR POSTING IT. I'M ON THIS LIST TOO, PURPORTEDLY FOR CRITICISM OF PRESIDENT OBAMA AND OTHER LEFT-WING RADICALS IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS IS THE NEW "McCARTHYISM" -- ONLY THIS TIME IT IS THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WHO ARE RUNNING A WITCH HUNT. SEE IF YOU CAN GET FACEBOOK TO COMMENT ON THESE SMEAR TACTICS AND CENSORSHIP.

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Russian Calls Out Barack Obama As A Communist

Barack Obama is called a pure Communist by the Russian Press and
many in Russia are making that statement. Maybe that is why the Boston
Bombers could get away with what they did. It seems that Russia knew
that the older brother was one to watch and they informed our
intelligence community of it, yet the FBI once again failed because they
“did not want to inflame people with Jihad connections or ideology!”
Obama has declared that the United States will not “attack” those who
hate the United States and instead, Obama wants to try to appease the
situation in the terrorists’ favor. One individual, a man named Xavier
Lerma, who wrote many articles about Obama and what he has done, along
with calling the people of the United States stupid and ignorant for putting him in office has openly called Obama a Communist! His article, “Obama’s Soviet Mistake,” discusses why what Obama is doing now has been done before in Russia and it failed.
Mr. Lerma stated:

“Putin in 2009 outlined his strategy for economic
success. Alas, poor Obama did the opposite but nevertheless was
re-elected. Bye, bye Miss American Pie. The Communists have won in America with Obama but failed miserably in Russia with Zyuganov who only received 17% of the vote. Vladimir Putin was re-elected as President keeping the NWO order out of Russia while America continues to repeat the Soviet mistake.”

This was in the first paragraph of his article where he made the
statement about President Obama, “Well, any normal individual
understands that as true but liberalism is a psychosis
. O’bomber even keeps the war going along the Mexican border with
projects like “fast and furious” and there is still no sign of ending
it. He is a Communist without question promoting the Communist Manifesto
without calling it so. How shrewd he is in America. His cult of
personality mesmerizes those who cannot go beyond their ignorance. They
will continue to follow him like those fools who still praise Lenin and
Stalin in Russia. Obama’s fools and Stalin’s fools share the same drink
of illusion.”

How many times have the Obama Supporters been called the “Kool Aid
Kids?” Yet,Obama still gets his way by making taxes on purchases of
anything on the internet. There is no doubt that new internet sales tax
legislation will simply be another tax that will be used by Obama to do
as he wishes to do! Yep, the United Socialists States of America has
tasted the drink of illusion and they will dance in the fire should
Obama tell them to do so!
Lerma continued:

“Russia lost its’ civil war with the Reds and millions
suffered torture and death for almost 75 years under the tyranny of the
United Soviet Socialist
Republic. Russians survived with a new and stronger faith in God and
ever growing Christian Church. The question is how long will the once
“Land of the Free” remain the United Socialist States of America? Their
suffering has only begun. Bye bye Miss American Pie! You know the song
you hippies. Sing it! Don’t you remember? The 1971 hit song by American
song writer Don McLean:
“And, as I watched him on the stage my hands were clenched in fists of rage.
No angel born in Hell could break that Satan’s spell
And, as the flames climbed high into the night to light the sacrificial rite, I saw…
Satan laughing with delight the day the music diedHe was singing, bye bye Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Them good ol’ boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing…
This’ll be the day that I die.

How long will America suffer and to what depths?”

We must wonder just how long will people be dragged along with Obama
over the cliff of failure? Obama has lied so much that he has to go
back to video to make sure he keeps the lie going. Here we get a small
insight into what the Russian people are told about Obama and the United
States! Could this be why Obama has not had a very good relation with
Russia, because Putin does not like Obama and considers him a fool?

In another article
by Mr. Lerma he discusses the current gun control measures that Obama
has finally pushed while he had the very idea early when he was a
Senator, Obama kept it silent until he was re-elected so he could
continue on his agenda to destroy the United States. The worst part of
this is that if a Russian man can see this, why have no reporters in the
United States seen this? It just does not make sense unless they have a
part in the forced failure of the United States.

Mr. Lerma wrote about President Obama, the NRA and many other ideas
that reporters in the United States just seem to not see in his article:

“The NRA is right, Obama is an “Elitist Hypocrite” but he
is actually worse than that. He is a liar and a murderer causing chaos
in America and the world. Obama’s sins multiply more than Dorian Gray’s
but people still think he looks good. Looking good is all that matters
in America, right? The list goes on: he raised taxes on everyone when he said he would not; killing innocent people with drones; executive privilege in “Fast and Furious“; the so called “Arab Spring“; promoting abortions; lying to Russia and pointing missiles at us; paying off his communist buddies to hire Russians to protest against Putin; no effort to lower the US debt
by even one penny, etc.. Yet, most people still love him in the US.
Those against him stand firm. Obama and those who own him cannot force
Americans to give up their guns now, but he will eventually.”

Why is it that the so-called reporters within the United States
cannot see what people outside the United States can see? Come on
people wake up and inform those who do not know!

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Verne Strickland / USA DOT COM / April 23, 2013

Jude Eden,personal friend and talented conservative activist, helped me deal with the scam which struck just this morning via my Facebook account. She did considerable research to determine what the source was for the bogus initiative. She found the accompanying article posted by the FBI. It seems to match the problem which I experiencedalthough no attachments were included there were no prompts seeking additional information. They failed there. Many thanksto Jude for providing this insight. Makes me feel a little better. Again, thanks to many conservative Internet friends who offered support and encouragement. What a team!

FBI National Press Office(202) 324-3691

The FBI has recently developed information
indicating cyber criminals are attempting to once again send fraudulent
e-mails to unsuspecting recipients stating that someone has filed a
complaint against them or their company with the Department of Justice
or another organization such as the Internal Revenue Service, Social
Security Administration, or the Better Business Bureau.

Information obtained during the FBI investigation has
been provided to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS has
taken steps to alert their public and private sector partners with the
release of a Critical Infrastructure Information Notice (CIIN).

The e-mails are intended to appear as legitimate
messages from the above departments, and they address the recipients by
name, and other personal information may be contained within the e-mail.
Consistent with previous efforts, the scam will likely be an effort to
secure Personally Identifiable Information. The nature of these types of
scams is to create a sense of urgency for the recipient to provide a
response through clicking on a hyperlink, opening an attachment, or
initiating a telephone call.

It is believed this e-mail refers to a complaint that is
in the form of an attachment, which actually contains virus software
designed to steal passwords from the recipient. The virus is wrapped in a
screensaver file wherein most anti-virus programs are unable to detect
its malicious intent. Once downloaded, the virus is designed to monitor
username and password logins, and record the activity, as well as other
password-type information, entered on the compromised machine.

“Through FBI investigations we frequently uncover
information about ongoing cyber attacks and scams. We share this
information through our partnership with DHS to alert the public and the
private sector,” noted James E. Finch, Assistant Director of the FBI’s
Cyber Division.

Be wary of any e-mail received from an unknown sender.
Do not open any unsolicited e-mail and do not click on any links
provided. To receive the latest information about cyber scams please go
to the FBI website
and sign up for e-mail alerts by clicking on one of the red envelopes.
If you have received a scam e-mail please notify the IC3 by filing a
complaint at www.ic3.gov. For more information on e-scams, please visit the FBI's New E-Scams and Warnings webpage.

OFFICES OF SENATOR BURR AND CONGRESSMAN McINTYRE ARE NON-COMMITTAL ON MEANING OF FACEBOOK MESSAGE ABOUT FBI

VERNE STRICKLAND / USA DOT COM/ APRIL 23, 2013

After
contacts today with Senator Burr's office (by Rhonda Amoroso and Nancy
Brice) and with Congressman McInyre's office (by suspected spy and rowdy
man Verne Strickland) there is every prospect that all this was a hoax!
John Dismukes also contacted me from the road, and voiced the same
impression, noting that one of the regs cited in the bogus email
attributed to HSD and FBI has not been signed into law. I thought that
was some good work, and very swift.

Thanks to all who wrote in
voicing support. There were many. I'm pleased at your taking the time and effort to do
this, and happy that the heat's off. My contact with McInyre's associate
was recorded for posterity, and I will post some of the verbatim
transcript after I have committed it to my computer. It was quite
revealing, and does little to shore up my chronic displeasure with this
man. Maybe this will get me into the trouble I so richly deserve. Also, I intend to reach out to Congressman Walter Jones, with whom
I'm well-acquainted (knew his distinguished father as well) to alert him
to this unusual incident.

I am not dropping this, and suspect
some laws may have been broken by anyone using the Internet speaking
erroneously in behalf of the FBI and Homeland Security. Stories to
follow on all of this. Again, you guys are super pals -- just great --
and I feel that this false alarm may have been a good fire drill for the
committed warriors that you are. God bless all. We're a team. Would
have done the same for you. And may have the opportunity, if you get my
drift. Your forever pal and fan, Verne (Rowdy Man) Strickland.

THIS IS WHAT I RECEIVED VIA EMAIL TODAY, REFERENCING MY FACEBOOK ACCOUNT. THE LEAD LINE WAS INTENDED BY ME TO INTRODUCE THE TOPIC ON MY SITE:

U.S. Government says to Verne: "You've Been Warned"! So come and get me, suckers.

Verne Strickland USA DOT COM April 23, 2013

President Barack Obama will attend a
Planned Parenthood fundraising gala on Thursday — as defense lawyers for
abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell defend him from murder charges in
court.

According to the publicly-announced schedule
for the week, Obama will hobnob with leaders of the abortion giant on
Thursday after attending the opening of the center for pro-life
President George W. Bush.

“On
Thursday, the president and the first lady will attend the dedication
ceremony of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Later in the day,
they will return to Washington, D.C., and later in the evening, the
president will attend the Planned Parenthood Gala,” the White House
announced.

In a statement accompanying the new schedule, Obama said he hopes the
nation will return to normalcy following the Boston Marathon bombing.

“All in all, this has been a tough week,” Obama said late Friday at
the White House. “But we’ve seen the character of our country once more.
And as president, I’m confident that we have the courage and the
resilience and the spirit to overcome these challenges — and to go
forward, as one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all.”

The NBC Today show asked Obama: “Have you been watching the Gosnell
trial? It’s a Philadelphia abortion doctor accused of gruesome crimes.
Are you following it, and do you think it animates a larger debate about
abortion in this country?”

“Well, I’m familiar with it. I can’t comment on it because it’s an
active trial,” said Obama. “What I can say is this: I think President
Clinton said it pretty well when he said abortion should be safe, legal,
and rare. If an individual carrying out an abortion, operating a
clinic, or doing anything else is violating medical ethics, violating
the law, then they should be prosecuted.”

Why Boston Was Attacked Is Only Hard To Figure Out If We Deny The Truth

Since last week when the Obama Administration and its media were
forced to acknowledge the bombing in Boston was a terrorist act NOT
carried out by the TEA party or the Klu Klux Klan, but rather by
adherent Muslims, we have heard a stream of verbal gymnastics trying to
absolve the murderers and somehow blame America for the carnage in
Boston.

We’ve heard from the Muslim apologist crowd – bearded fake
intellectuals with pipes, elbow patches and the like – speaking in a
halting meter to make it seem like every word is worth carving on Mount
Rushmore.
Their sophistry, saying “who radicalized them?” and “young men
struggling to fit into a strange new culture” or “just young men trying
to be heard” does us no good.
What we need now is truth not feel good, “all cultures have good and bad” relativism.
Only the truth can help us learn from what has happened – lies don’t
cut it. The truth is these two punks fell for the lies in the Qur’an’s
verses of the sword.
These verses told them to kill non Muslins (2:191-193) (2:244)
(2:216) ( 3:56) and commit any number of criminal acts in the name of
the so-called “religion of peace.”

The word “terror” is actually in the qur’an (surah 8-12) in the
common meaning of the word: “Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts
of the Unbelievers…”
Surah 4:74 exalts Muslims to do battle with “non-believers” secure in
the knowledge that if they are killed they will be rewarded in
paradise, thus providing the grounds for educated Muslims to talk the
uneducated Muslim into becoming suicide bombers.
In keeping with the general tone of subtle deception in the Qur’an
“allah” orders faithful Muslims to kill and maim those who are enemies.
Surah 5:33 says, “they should be murdered or crucified or their hands
and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides…” This is why the
ball bearing bombs were arranged so they would rip the legs off of the
runners and spectators in Boston.
The Quar’an is filled with commands to lie, kill and steal to maim
and enslave non-believers. The media won’t tell us this because it would
raise the question of why we are making believe all of this is untrue.
In three minutes anyone can find this material on line. It is a
certainty that those who tell us Islam is a “religion of peace” are
lying and know they are lying. The question is always, what can we do
about it?

Verne Strickland USA DOT COM

The big questions buzzing over Boston Bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev have a single answer: It emerged in the 102 tense hours between
the twin Boston Marathon bombings Monday, April 15 – which left three
dead, 180 injured and a police officer killed at MIT - and Dzohkhar’s
capture Friday, April 19 in Watertown.
The conclusion reached by debkafile’s
counterterrorism and intelligence sources is that the brothers were
double agents, hired by US and Saudi intelligence to penetrate the
Wahhabi jihadist networks which, helped by Saudi financial
institutions, had spread across the restive Russian Caucasian. Instead, the two former Chechens betrayed their mission and went secretly over to the radical Islamist networks.

By this tortuous path, the brothers earned the dubious distinction of
being the first terrorist operatives to import al Qaeda terror to the
United States through a winding route outside the Middle East – the
Caucasus.
This broad region encompasses the autonomous or semi-autonomous Muslim
republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya, North
Ossetia and Karachyevo-Cherkesiya, most of which the West has never
heard of.
Moscow however keeps these republics on a tight military and
intelligence leash, constantly putting down violent resistance by the
Wahhabist cells, which draw support from certain Saudi sources and funds
from the Riyadh government for building Wahhabist mosques and schools
to disseminate the state religion of Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis feared that their convoluted involvement in the Caucasus
would come embarrassingly to light when a Saudi student was questioned
about his involvement in the bombng attacks while in a Boston hospital
with badly burned hands.
They were concerned to enough to send Saudi Foreign Minister Prince
Saudi al-Faisal to Washington Wednesday, April 17, in the middle of the
Boston Marathon bombing crisis, for a private conversation with
President Barack Obama and his national security adviser Tom Donilon on
how to handle the Saudi angle of the bombing attack.
That day too, official Saudi domestic media launched an extraordinary
three-day campaign. National and religious figures stood up and
maintained that authentic Saudi Wahhabism does not espouse any form of
terrorism or suicide jihadism and the national Saudi religion had
nothing to do with the violence in Boston. “No matter what the
nationality and religious of the perpetrators, they are terrorists and
deviants who represent no one but themselves.”
Prince Saud was on a mission to clear the 30,000 Saudi students in
America of suspicion of engaging in terrorism for their country or
religion, a taint which still lingers twelve years after 9/11. He was
concerned that exposure of the Tsarnaev brothers’ connections with
Wahhabist groups in the Caucasus would revive the stigma.
The Tsarnaevs' recruitment by US intelligence as penetration agents
against terrorist networks in southern Russia explains some otherwise
baffling features of the event:
1. An elite American college in Cambridge admitted younger brother
Dzhokhar and granted him a $2,500 scholarship, without subjecting him to
the exceptionally stiff standard conditions of admission. This may be
explained by his older brother Tamerlan demanding this privilege for his
kid brother in part payment for recruitment.
2. When in 2011, a “foreign government” (Russian intelligence) asked
the FBI to screen Tamerlan for suspected ties to Caucasian Wahhabist
cells during a period in which they had begun pledging allegiance to al
Qaeda, the agency, it was officially revealed, found nothing
incriminating against him and let him go after a short interview.
He was not placed under surveillance. Neither was there any attempt to
hide the fact that he paid a long visit to Russia last year and on his
return began promoting radical Islam on social media.
Yet even after the Boston marathon bombings, when law enforcement
agencies, heavily reinforced by federal and state personnel, desperately
hunted the perpetrators, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was never mentioned as a
possible suspect
3. Friday, four days after the twin explosions at the marathon
finishing line, the FBI released footage of Suspect No. 1 in a black hat
and Suspect No. 2 in a white hat walking briskly away from the crime
scene, and appealed to the public to help the authorities identify the
pair.
We now know this was a charade. The authorities knew exactly who they
were. Suddenly, during the police pursuit of their getaway car from the
MIT campus on Friday, they were fully identified. The brother who was
killed in the chase was named Tamerlan, aged 26, and the one who
escaped, only to be hunted down Saturday night hiding in a boat, was
19-year old Dzhokhar.
Our intelligence sources say that we may never know more than we do
today about the Boston terrorist outrage which shook America – and most
strikingly, Washington - this week. We may not have the full story of
when and how the Chechen brothers were recruited by US intelligence as
penetration agents – any more than we have got to the bottom of tales of
other American double agents who turned coat and bit their recruiters.
Here is just a short list of some of the Chechen brothers’ two-faced predecessors:
In the 1980s, an Egyptian called Ali Abdul Saoud Mohamed offered his
services as a spy to the CIA residence in Cairo. He was hired, even
though he was at the time the official interpreter of Ayman al-Zuwahiri,
then Osama bin Laden’s senior lieutenant and currently his successor.
He accounted for this by posing as a defector. But then, he turned out
to be feeding al Qaeda US military secrets. Later, he was charged with
Al Qaeda’s 1998 bombings of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es-Salaam.
On Dec. 30, 2009, the Jordanian physician Humam Khalil al-Balawi,
having gained the trust of US intelligence in Afghanistan as an agent
capable of penetrating al Qaeda’s top ranks, detonated a bomb at a
prearranged rendezvous in Kost, killing the four top CIA agents in the
country.
Then, there was the French Muslim Mohamed Merah. He was recruited by
French intelligence to penetrate Islamist terror cells in at least eight
countries, including the Caucasus. At the end of last year, he revealed
his true spots in deadly attacks on a Jewish school in Toulouse and a
group of French military commandoes.
The debate has begun over the interrogation of the captured Boston
bomber Dzhokhar Tsarmayev when he is fit for questioning after surgery
for two bullet wounds and loss of blood. The first was inflicted during
the police chase in which his brother Tamerlan was killed.
An ordinary suspect would be read his rights (Miranda) and be permitted
a lawyer. In his case, the “public safety exemption” option may be
invoked, permitting him to be questioned without those rights, provided
the interrogation is restricted to immediate public safety concerns.
President Barack Obama is also entitled to rule him an “enemy combatant”
and so refer him to a military tribunal and unrestricted grilling.
According to debkafile’s counter terror sources, four questions should top the interrogators' agenda:
a) At what date did the Tsarnaev brothers turn coat and decide to work for Caucasian Wahhabi networks?
b) Did they round up recruits for those networks in the United States -
particularly, among the Caucasian and Saudi communities?
c) What was the exact purpose of the Boston Marathon bombings and their aftermath at MIT in Watertown?
d) Are any more terrorist attacks in the works in other American cities?

Verne Strickland USA DOT COM April 21, 2013

Just days after President Obama left Israel, we learned that his
administration quietly gave the green light to giving nearly $500
million in taxpayer-funded aid to the Palestinian Authority.
The administration’s memory must be short.
Roughly four months ago, the Palestinian Authority defied the Oslo Accords – and the U.S. – by seeking and gaining non-member observer state status at the United Nations.
Just weeks ago – right before President Obama’s visit – the Palestinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party met with representatives from Hamas to
implement the long-promised Palestinian “unity government” that would
render the Palestinian people formally and officially terrorist-led.
Taken together with President Obama’s recent gift of
$250 million to Muslim Brotherhood-led Egypt, America’s taxpayers are
now on the hook for three-quarters of a billion dollars in sequester-era
stimulus for radical foreign governments with recent records of defying
America and breaking treaties.
It is difficult to overstate the absurdity of these gifts. The
Palestinian Authority’s hostility to Israel stretches back to its
founding – and before. In fact, the PA’s founding father, Yasser
Arafat, had a record of terrorism and bloodshed unmatched until Usama bin Laden burst onto the scene in the late 1990s.
Among his many transgressions, Arafat was involved in the 1972 Munich
Olympic Massacre and the 1973 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sudan,
where the U.S. Ambassador was murdered. His reign of terror against
Israel killed more Israeli civilians – on a per capita basis – than were
killed during Bin Laden’s 9/11 terrorist attack against the U.S.
Yet President Obama spoke to Palestinians while standing under a banner featuring Arafat’s portrait.
The modern Palestinian Authority certainly became less violent once
Israel erected the West Bank fence and militarily crushed its worst
terrorist elements during the Second Intifada, but it still celebrates
suicide bombers and draws its own maps and monuments without reference to Israel. Palestinian textbooks are famous for their anti-Semitism, and entire generations of children are brought up to hate Jews.
In other words, they still haven’t given up the dream of destroying Israel.
The pattern of American foreign aid now becoming clear: We borrow
billions from China to subsidize and even prop up regimes that defy us
at every turn.
Egypt and the Palestinian Authority defy the U.S., beg for money
(with the implicit threat that conditions will grow even worse if aid is
withheld), then defy the U.S. again. That’s not an alliance; that’s a
protection racket.
Defy, beg, and defy some more – all while Americans tighten their
belts here at home, and we’re led to believe that there’s not enough
money even for tours of the White House.
Two weeks ago, Senator Marco Rubio introduced an Amendment requiring
that explicit conditions be placed on aid to Muslim Brotherhood-led
Egypt, and – critically – these conditions required that the government
of Egypt take concrete actions, not merely make promises.
Similar conditions should be placed on all U.S. aid, not just aid to
Egypt. Let’s sequester terrorists before we sequester Americans. It
makes no sense to continue funding hostile governments.
And, it’s past time for America to call the Palestinian’s bluff.
There should be only one path to American aid – the path to peace.
Twice in the last twenty years the Israeli government has offered to
establish a Palestinian homeland with a capital in East Jerusalem, and
twice the Palestinians have rejected that deal – once with guns,
rockets, and suicide bombs.
Before the Palestinian Authority gets a single dime from American
taxpayers, it must give up its dream of destroying Israel – in words and
deeds, to the world and – crucially – to its own people. Stop teaching
hate. Sever all ties with the terrorist thugs of Hamas. Come to the
peace table without preconditions and without even a thought of
destroying the nation of Israel.
In other words, act like an ally. Then, we’ll think about aid.This article written by ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow is crossposted on FoxNews.com.